inotify-win
A port of the inotifywait tool for Windows, see https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools
Compiling
If you have Cygwin installed, just run make in this directory. This will create the executable, inotifywait.exe.
Manual complilation goes as follows:
$ %WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\csc.exe /o /t:exe /out:inotifywait.exe src\*.csUsage
The command line arguments are similar to the original one's:
$ inotifywait.exe
Usage: inotifywait [options] path [...]
Options:
-r/--recursive: Recursively watch all files and subdirectories inside path
-m/--monitor: Keep running until killed (e.g. via Ctrl+C)
-q/--quiet: Do not output information about actions
-e/--event list: Events (create, modify, delete, move) to watch, comma-separated. Default: all
--format format: Format string for output.
--exclude: Do not process any events whose filename matches the specified regex
--excludei: Ditto, case-insensitive
--include: Only process events whose filename matches the specified regex
--includei: Ditto, case-insensitive
Formats:
%e : Event name
%f : File name
%w : Path name
%T : Current date and timeKnown issues
When moving files, not all events are reported consistently with the original. See issue #7 for an explanation. Pull requests welcome!